Quotes of the day - Monday 3rd October

Australian Canoeing Media Services, Monday, 3 October 2005

Men's C2 Teams - Remy Alonso (FRA)
On their disastrous run in which they accumulated 656 penalty points:
"It's very hard to paddle a C2 with only one paddle."

Men's K1 Teams - Daniele Molmenti (ITA)
On his second run:
"Unlucky not to win I think. It's slalom, who knows what is going to happen. Maybe the French god is stronger than our god."

Men's C1 Teams - Robin Bell (AUS)
On his role in the team:
“I try to help out wherever I can and hopefully now that I have actually won something they will actually listen to me."

Women's K1 Teams - Marcela Sadilova (CZE)
On the teams event:
"It's different because normally we are trying to beat each other but in this event we work together."

Men's K1 Teams - Jamie Cartwright (CAN)
On paddling K1 instead of C1:
"I rolled at the start and then it took me a while to get my bearings. After that is was basically all over for us."

Men's K1 Teams - Benjamin Boukpeti (TGO)
On being part of the ICF developing team:
"It is a really good opportunity for developing countries to get some experience and hopefully improve a lot… Hopefully next time we will do better and have more athletes from developing nations competing."

Women's K1 Teams - Stepanka Hilgertova (CZE) - Gold Medal
On the victory:
"Gold is just, just fantastic. We had three very good individual times in our last races and we managed to put it together well."

Women's K1 Teams- Heather Corrie (GBR)
On their silver medal:
"For me this is my first World Championships and I'd only dreamed of a debut like this."

Men's C1 Teams - Pierre Labarelle (FRA) - Gold Medal
On whether he thought he could win before the race:
"Yeah sure, in our dreams."

Men's K1 Teams - Anthony Brown (AUS) - 4th Place
On the overall results for Australia:
“The teams are all in really good shape, it shows we’re moving forward and it’s really positive for the next few years.”

Women's K1 Teams - Victoria Milne (AUS)
On their performance:
"We all learn from each other and we are only as strong as the weakest link."